simulant

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Potatoes largely don’t thrive in the simulant soil and low light conditions, but sweet potatoes do a little better.

From Scientific American

“Having our own facility allows us to focus on oxygen production, measuring it with a mass spectrometer as it is extracted from the regolith simulant,” Lomax said in a statement.

From Fox News

Oravec is an expert on extraterrestrial dirt, having developed a simulant called GRC-1 for her doctorate thesis.

From Washington Times

And the folks at Olympia’s Off Planet Research are making “regolith simulant,” also known as moon dirt, so companies can test their components in moon-like conditions.

From Seattle Times

"WINE successfully mined the soil, made rocket propellant, and launched itself on a jet of steam extracted from the simulant. We could potentially use this technology to hop on the Moon, Ceres, Europa, Titan, Pluto, the poles of Mercury, asteroids — anywhere there is water and sufficiently low gravity."

From Fox News